What Does an Updraft Get You?
There is an interesting anomaly with updrafts. Working in an updraft doesn’t necessarily mean all the things we think of when we consider success. Or happiness. Or contentment. It can provide those things—but it might not. It doesn’t necessarily provide them. It provides what’s necessary to accomplish the goals of the updraft which might not include success or contentment.
You see, doing the right thing isn’t necessarily about making you happy or successful or content. It’s not necessarily about putting security in the bank. (The truth is that the universe may need something more important from you than for you to have money in the bank.) Not that there is anything wrong with money in the bank or happiness or contentment, but just because you’d like it, doesn’t mean it’s part of the current you are catching.
Each of us is living a different life, a different updraft, and so we will not live the same result. We are not meant to be the same, live the same, do the same, or have the same. We are each a different creative movement of the universe and will create and be something unique. And you will experience passion, interest, curiosity, and the joy of the creative force. There will be some momentum carrying you along.
So trying to keep up with the Joneses (or Myspace or Google) is really not where it’s at. It’s all about truly being yourself. There are so many ways in which we hamper the idea of who we really are by judging, comparing, and wishing it were different, wanting what she’s got. All wasted time, wasted effort. You are your potential coming into being in every moment—perfect as it is, able to make a new decision and create the next thing. It is precisely what you are.
Whatever comes to you will be the fulfillment of your updraft, your capacities, and the choices you make. The goofy part of this is this: it is what you actually are—simply creativity happening in a particular time and place as you. And it turns out that it is very fulfilling to be you. So enjoy it!
